Thinking Like a Historian

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Rethinking History Instruction

Nikki Mandell and Bobbie Malone

A framework for enhancing the teaching and learning of history—with practical examples, engaging lessons, and activities for the classroom.

344 pages, 8.5 x 11, 136 color and b&w photos
Paperback: $34.95 | ISBN: 978-0-87020-438-8
Ebook: $19.99 | ISBN: 978-0-87020-483-8
Publication Date: 12/8/2008

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Front cover of Thinking Like a Historian

Description

Do you love history? Are you fascinated and enthusiastic about studying or teaching history? With practical examples, engaging and effective lessons, and classroom activities that tie to essential questions, Thinking Like a Historian provides a framework to enhance and improve teaching and learning history. We invite you to use this book to bring history into your classroom or to re-energize your teaching of this crucial discipline in new ways.

The contributors to Thinking Like a Historian are experienced historians and educators from elementary through university levels. This philosophical and pedagogical guide to history as a discipline uses published standards of the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the National Council for History Education, the National History Standards and state standards for Wisconsin and California.

Nikki Mandell

Author Bios

Nikki Mandell earned her PhD in history at the University of California–Davis. She is a former history professor at the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater, where she taught American and global women’s history, US business history, US social history, and courses in historical methods and research. She served as project director and participating historian in the Teaching American History program that developed and field-tested the Thinking Like a Historian framework.

Bobbi Malone

Bobbie Malone, PhD, is former director of the Office of School Services at the Wisconsin Historical Society. With a master’s degree in elementary education, she taught school for ten years in Louisiana and Texas before taking a doctorate in American history from Tulane University. Malone is co-author of the state history textbook, Wisconsin: Our State, Our Story, which is designed around the Thinking Like a Historian framework. She has authored and edited many other student books and teacher’s guides on Wisconsin history for the state’s classrooms. She served as a project partner in the Teaching American History program that developed and field-tested the Thinking Like a Historian framework.